Today I came across this great Facebook guide that I want to share with you. What is important about this new guide is that it is designed and intended for parents and hence the title " A Parent Guide to Facebook ". You like it or not, our kids spend more time on Facebook then they do interacting with us. Facebook has become the medium number one for socializing and only a small section of its users use it for educational purposes.
As teachers and educators we have a huge responsibility to teach and inform our students about what is a good and bad digital practice. Yes digital literacy is one of the main objectives of today's education and premium should be given to those digital platforms that our students frequent regularly . In this regard , Twitter and Facebook come on the top of the list .For guidelines on how to use Twitter in education you can check this link to learn more , we have also posted a guide on the educational use of Facebook which you can find here , but today we are providing you with another guide that is equally important and that is intended to help parents deal with their kids Facebook issues more intelligently.
This guide has been prepared and created by Larry Magid and Anne Collier and you can download it HERE.
Here its table of content :
- INTRODUCTION 2
- What is Facebook? 2
- What do people do on Facebook? 2
- Why do young people use Facebook? 3
- Is Facebook safe? 3
- What are the risks involved in social networking? 4
- Social reporting 5
- Why children should be honest about their age 5
- How do we parent Facebook users? 6
- Ways to monitor your child’s Facebook activities 7
- Scams, spam, phishing and social engineering 7
- Managing reputation in the digital age 9
- Digital footprints & good reputations 10
- Your children's timelines are a reflection on them 10
- HOW TO OPTIMIZE FACEBOOK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 11
- How Facebook is organized 11
- Timeline 12
- Friends 17
- News Feed 17
- Subscribe 18
- Photos and tagging 18
- Apps 21
- Lists 23
- Groups 23
- Messages 24
- Managing your privacy on Facebook 25
- Special safeguards for teens 26
- Facebook’s new, simplified 'inline' privacy settings 27
- Customizing who you share with 28
- Limiting who can find you in search 28
- Default privacy from apps that don’t have inline controls 29
- Download your whole Facebook history 29
- Facebook for mobile 30
- Checking in to a location 30
- Being checked in or tagged 31
- Reporting problems 32
- Reporting a person 33
- Reporting specific posts 34
- Preventing suicide and other self-harm 34
- CONCLUSION
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